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It is obvious that the amount of home waste produced is increasing year after year at a disconcerting rate, and federal governments are under pressure to expand existing land fills or build brand-new ones to accommodate the waste that is being produced.

What is Hazardous Home Waste?

Home waste is leftover from home products. Dangerous home waste are home products which contain chemicals that have the potential to affect plants, the health of people and animals and are detrimental to the environment when handled improperly

Inappropriate management of home waste has the potential to be extremely detrimental to the environment, individuals, and animals. What many of us might not understand is that many of those common home products contain corrosive, toxic, or combustible chemicals that can be dangerous to the environment if not dealt with or managed correctly.

Dangerous home waste should not be disposed of in the same way as regular waste. For example, fuel can be buried in the ground, can affect rivers, and find its way into drinking water. The hydrocarbons in motor oils or pesticides have the potential to bio-accumulate in freshwater fishes and can find its way in the food chain. Burning hazardous waste leads to the release of toxic chemicals and fumes in the air. Once released into the environment, these chemicals are distributed over large locations, thus affecting the health of persons over a larger area.

Some of these chemicals remain in the systems of plants and animals for a long period of time and might enter the food chain when the affected plants and animals are taken in.

Bioaccumulation of dangerous compounds in the systems of plants, animals, and people has the potential to affect their reproductive lives, growth, impair the function of different organs such as the liver and kidneys, affect the functioning of the central nerve systems and immune systems of human and animals and some have been listed as known carcinogens.

How Can You Tell a Product is Hazardous?

Check out the labels of products. In Castroville and other parts of the country, labels are required for all products. These should provide details on the constituents of the products, consisting of symbols and words, to indicate the threat to animals, people, and the environment if mishandled.

How To Tell If Products Are Hazardous?

Constantly read the label of products in your home and make it a habit of reading the labels of a product before making the decision to buy them.

What Can You Do to Manage Contaminated Materials?

Purchase Eco-friendly Products – Experts concur that the very best way to manage waste is to not produce it in the first place. You can start by avoiding the purchase of products which contain chemicals that are harmful to people, animals, and the environment. Purchase those products that are eco-friendly or friendly to the environment.

Safe Product Storage – Ensure that dangerous products are kept in a safe place, that their containers are not damaged, do not have any leaks to decrease the threat of infecting water sources, land, people, animals, plants, and the environment. Ensure that corrosive products like acids are saved in separate locations from other dangerous products.

Check products frequently to ensure that there are no leaks and broken lids or bulging sides.

Constantly store products in their original containers to avoid unintended use.

Ensure that these products are saved in a place where children and animals have no access to them.

Disposal of Products – Disposal of products should constantly be the last option. Why? Due to the fact that there are no safe methods of disposing of hazardous waste. You can avoid the predicament of hazardous waste disposal by either choosing eco-friendly products, recycling the product, giving the excess products to friends, next-door neighbors, or family or purchasing smaller sized volumes of the product.

If, however, disposal is inescapable, then you should get rid of the waste in the way prescribed on the label.

Although there are laws to control the handling and use of large quantities of hazardous waste, the existence of laws to control the typical small quantities produced at the home is non-existent. For this reason, the responsibility for the management of hazardous waste falls directly on the shoulders of the hazardous waste generators.

Protection of the environment can only occur when you play a role in finding creative ways to re-use, recycle, or decrease waste. This is vital if we are to secure the environment and health of future generations. Keep In Mind That Waste Management is Your Business, My Business, Our Business.

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